With luck, they'll forgo the present day setting altogether. It's probably the most boring and the part people care the least about.

As for its main setting, I kind of want Colonial-era Shanghai. With the air thick with crime, corruption and opium, and the city filled to the brim with gangsters, power hungry businessmen, crooked politicians and scheming foreigners, the setting always felt like the perfect playground for a game like Assassin's Creed. Plus, imagine adding martial arts into your arsenal.